Excel or Word hyperlink opens new program ins

I am using MS Office 2007 and have made a spreadsheet in Excel that I use as a table to keep track of my progress with some work I am doing. In that spreadsheet there are no formulas, just data that I put there. In one column I have made hyperlinks so that per row I can open a corresponding text file, either in WordPerfect or Word. The problem is however that all hyperlinks open a new instance of that program with the file included in the hyperlink. What I want is that the hyperlink just opens as a new window in either Word or WordPerfect. The settings in Word are that it will only show one icon on the taskbar, even if there are multiple windows, so I am not confused with the standard setting that Word shows a separate taskbar icon for each window. In Windows Task manager I can see that every time a new program instance is started, i.e. if I open 3 WordPerfect documents there are 3 instances of WordPerfect running and the same is true if I opened Word documents. Because this problem exists with hyperlinks linked to Word as well as WordPerfect documents, I already reached the conclusion that it must be an Office issue. Moreover, when I make a hyperlink in Word I encounter the same issue that the link is always opened in a new program instance. Also, when I make a hyperlink in QuattroPro it does open every hyperlink in a new window in WordPerfect or Word, which is how I want it.

I have looked for settings in Word and Excel, to see if I could find anything there and also in the hyperlink dialog box. I also did quite some Google searching, but I have found nothing so far.

Does anybody know how I can make Office open hyperlinks in new windows instead of new program instances? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks for your reply DerbyDad03. The problem with every link opening in a new instance is that it takes much longer to start another instance of WordPerfect or Word than if it opened in a new window inside of WordPerfect or Word.

It also uses more computer resources (especially if I open many hyperlinks).

Last, it makes it more difficult to manage than if I have a couple of windows open inside WordPerfect or Word. In that case I have buttons at the bottom of WordPerfect with the file name in it. If I have the documents open as separate instances, I only see in the taskbar button "WordPerfect X4- [path]", where it, even with only 5 taskbar buttons open on a 20" monitor, does not get further than "WordPerfect X4- [F:...]" but usually is limited to something like "WordPerfec...". Word starts the title of the taskbar button with the file name, but if my filenames all start with "Notes for [x]" where [x] is the program I have written notes about, it does not help me much either. I usually use WordPerfect X4 though for my Word processing.

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